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Mostly an indifference to Magic the last few months. I still loving playing the game, but I just can't be anywhere near as engaged with so much coming out all the time. At some point it just became bloated beyond recognition. I'll glance through the list for a new set and take some mental notes...

Cube started for me as a means to create a re-draftable environment as a (mostly) broke university student back in 2014. I fell back into Magic in 2013, got very interested and invested in the game with my friends, and while we loved the process of drafting it was quite pricey. I learned of Cube...

I'll probably wait a bit and revisit whatever catches on after a month, but after an initial review of the set I don't think there's a single card that fills a need for me. Anything role-related is a pass due to tediousness in paper and there are a few cards that look interesting like Syr...

It's a neat subgame ala Mesmeric Orb. Being able to play it early and get multiple triggers over a game makes it way more attractive than the one-shot from Combustible Gearhulk which always felt very boom or bust. Being able to play this in something like a U/B Reanimator shell where you can...

Definitely a neat card if there is a G/x Artifacts slant in the cube. It can get big in a hurry, but unlike Teething Wurmlet at 1 there is a lot more competition at the 2 drop slot for green decks. For me this would be competing with Gala Greeters, but without a critical mass of enchantments in...

I'm hoping for some decent food support to make Wicked Wolf's ability not just flavor text. It's a real clean design and I loved how it played during Eldraine limited, but only having Gilded Goose for so long (mostly because Oko is bullshit) made it trinket text.

I strongly disagree with the notion that Horizons sets have been good for the game as a whole. They've pretty much killed non-rotating format interest in paper by introducing insane power creep and an artificial rotation cycle that only appeals to those deep into the hobby. Obviously can't speak...

The gall to up the price to $85 (excuse me what the fuck) for a shitty pre-con is far more egregious to me than the lack of Eldrazi (which is also pretty bad). Before they went off on this everything is Commander all the time bullshit I was absolutely the target audience for the yearly pre-con...

Too many spoilers has drained my enthusiasm for Magic in the last month or so. I'm probably not going to tune in much again until the Fall set comes around. It's just too much stuff with no room to breathe in between.

It's mostly a delayed cantrip. You play it early or when you have excess mana, you cash it in if you need to fix or if you're just looking to draw an extra card. I had a bunch of limited games where I would just deploy it early with nothing better to do and sometimes just not even get around to...

I mean the set isn't even technically out yet and there's no decent draft set coming out for a while (Commander Masters will likely be a trash draft format like every other Commander set) so I would expect Nazgul to fall in value pretty quickly. There is going to be a lot of the set opened with...

I did the Friday Prerelease and went 3-0 with this neat deck: Ones 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes 1 Oliphaunt 1 Eagles of the North 1 Ranger's Firebrand 1 Lash of the Balrog Twos 1 Battle-Scarred Goblin 1 Easterling Vanguard 1 Goblin Fireleaper 1 Mauhur, Uruk-hai Captain 1 March from the Black...

Reprieve Stern Scolding Minas Tirith Just 2 cards going into the main cube along with 1 land for the ULD pile. Reprieve and Stern Scolding have obvious homes as supplemental support for existing archetypes with clean designs while Minas Tirith is an interesting land option in W for the ULD...

True, but it's still a lot of information for a player to process if they aren't familiar with the environment. At least with EDH it's your own deck that you have prior experience with. There will be a lot of crazy stuff and interactions aplenty in a 4 player game, but at least you'll be aware...

Managing complexity, maximizing familiarity with resonant designs and mechanics, and making card choices and decisions with different types of players in mind are the most important to me. My playgroup is full of players who have been with the game for mostly a decade now, but we don't cube in...

Yeah I'm about halfway there with foiling out the various basics, that's become my mini cube goal after I finished foiling out my main cube over the last year. Those Islands and Forests are my favorite arts by far but man do they add up over time haha. But then again I've always enjoyed the...

Never trying them in cube, one go-around with a prerelease pool was enough for me in paper. Just not a fan of fiddly double-sided mechanics where no one is going to remember the backside. At least for flipwalkers or Ixalan enchantments or ZNR lands you knew the other side was going to be a...

Yeah, I'm not very surprised by them having the wrong takeaway for why Standard has flopped in paper the last few years. Forsythe had a tweet months back that I saw in a group chat where it seemed like he was legitimately confused as to why Paper had died and that's a terrible sign for the...

And that's the main issue for me with any of these emblem-lite mechanics. They punish players for NOT being up to date with everything MTG and they make the game excessively complex with very little payoff. The only reason I still follow Magic actively every set is due to r/magictcg being...

Provisioner all day. Being able to store the mana for a bigger payoff later on is way more powerful than a more expensive Cobra. Cobra is at it's most powerful being a 2 drop that lets you curve into a 4 or 5 on T3 ahead of the curve. If you have the 5-6 drops to consistently do that with Nissa...